ABOUT THIS ALBUM

Album Notes

L.A. post-garage collective’s third album isboth accessible and adventurous.On its third album Wannabee Nobody, L.A. music collective ModHippie – spearheaded by singer/songwriter Doug McGuire andincluding various X, Beach Boys and Standells alumni,streamlines its thunderous garage, psychedelic and post-punkinfluenced power pop into something both more accessible andexperimental than its first two albums, Tomorrow Then (2015)and Big Wow (2017).Featuring two six-minute suites (including the epic opening track“Saturday Show”) and a spacey, synthed-out cover of theReplacements’ “Johnny’s Gonna Die,” Wannabe Nobodyconsolidates Mod Hippie’s trademark sprawling guitar texturesand wide soundscapes into a concise, hook-driven but off-kilterrock vision.Look no further than the first single, “And Everyone The Fashion(So Sorry)” which seamlessly blends punk, garage, power pop,surf and Middle Eastern influences into a short, sharp rant that isas dazzling as it is direct.The epic garage sound the band perfected on its first two albumsis back on display on “Leave It All Behind,” while “Cricket LaRue”and “Lux” slyly morph those influences into tributes to swamprock and The Cramps, respectively (Cramps producer EarleMankey mastered the record). The sad, yearning “You Know”calls to mind some of Paul Westerberg’s closing-time balladry,while the gorgeous, cryptic two-part “The Special Price Keepers”starts out psychedelic and winds up in trippy Pink Floyd/Lindsey Buckingham territory with its gossamer layered guitars.Available now at www.karmafrog.comAvailabe October 5 at itunes and amazon.com